WaPo Still Somehow Blames the United States for Mexican Cartel Woes
Posted by FirearmsTruth on August 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
For The Washington Post David Ignatius writes, “how can it be possible that after 18 months in office, President Obama still has not appointed a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.” Ignatius then goes on to write this statement:
“Mexico is reeling from a drug-cartel insurgency that is armed mainly with weapons acquired in the United States.”
He follows that absurdity with this choice bit of insight:
“The numbers about weapons flows to Mexico are genuinely scary. From December 2006 through this past April, the Mexican government seized 31,946 handguns and 41,093 assault rifles. Of the weapons that could be traced, roughly 80 percent came from the United States, according to Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan.”
We must ask the fine folks at WaPo “how can it be possible that after nearly 18 months that you are still quoting figures that have been debunked time and time again?” This 80 percent number has been cleared up repeatedly, and it isn’t close to accurate. So why does it appear time and time again in The Washington Post? It is almost as if the paper has such an anti-gun agenda that they’ll cover up the truth to make the facts seem worse than reality.
But Ignatius wasn’t finished, as he had one more statement to make:
“There are roughly 7,000 U.S. gun dealers within 100 miles of the Mexican border.”
What is the point exactly? Should be there a gun-free zone or something near Mexico? Should business owners be forced to close shop because they’re too close to the Mexican border? Is that what Ignatius is trying to say? That’s how we read it anyway.
